I think I was supposed to play jazz..

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of sto….

There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you practice sharing? How do you practice daring? Ho….

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control….

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was ….

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time..

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste..

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints..

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories..

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial..

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas..

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music..

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that ….

I try to practice with my life..

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is n….

In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more than painting might do. T….

Let my children have music! Let them hear live music..

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes..

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep….

When your feeling down, do you know you can change it, like that. Put on a beautiful piece of music, start singing, that will change your emotion - o….

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; w….